The Well of Being Childhood, Subjectivity, And Education

Informationen zum Autor David Kennedy is Associate Professor of Educational Foundations at Montclair State University. Klappentext In this wide-ranging work, David Kennedy undertakes a philosophically grounded analysis of the history of childhood, the history of adulthood, and their interrelationship. Using themes and perspectives from the history of childhood, mythology, psychoanalysis, art, literature, philosophy, and education, the author locates the experience of childhood across all stages of the human life cycle, and thereby weighs its transformative potential for human culture. He offers a nuanced approach to child study that raises issues about how adults see children and how children see themselves, which could lead to a qualitatively different system of teacher preparation--"a system that views the child as, participant rather than object in the structure of social reproduction. This sweeping review of conceptions of and approaches to childhood yields a profound vision of what schooling should be like.

About the author

David Kennedy is Professor Emeritus of Educational Foundations at Montclair State University. He is the coeditor (with Brock Bahler) of Philosophy of Childhood Today: Exploring the Boundaries and the author of The Well of Being: Childhood, Subjectivity, and Education, also published by SUNY Press, among many other books.

Product details

• Authors: David Kennedy
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 30.08.2006
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work
• EAN: 9780791468258
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-6825-8
• Pages: 235
• Dimensions (packing): 15.9 x 22.9 x 1.9 cm
• Series: Suny Series, Early Childhood E; SUNY series, Early Childhood Education: Inquiries and Insights
• Subjects: EDUCATION / Educational Psychology; EDUCATION / Learning Styles; Educational psychology